Two West Palm Beach-area parents, in separate incidents, are facing aggravated child abuse charges for allegedly striking their children in an effort to discipline them. Ismmale Petit-Frere, 39, of suburban West Palm Beach, was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday after a deputy concluded that she had burned her 14-year-old daughter with an iron and hit her with a belt, leaving permanent marks on her body, according to the arrest report.

~ DID YOU KNOW? ~
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.